Belt-fastener.



J. W KIDWBLL.

BELT FASTENER.

APPLIUATION FILED 1311c. 10,1908.

934,321, Patented Sept. 14, 1909.

dw ll JGHN W. KIDWELL, Q93? RICI-IMGl-l'l3, VIRGINIA.

' Application s1;

Ham l-se lant. Patented Eiept. it, recs.

, L968. Serial No. 486,825.

and useful improvements in fasteners for driving or power belts and the invention has for itspr-imary object a simple, durable and efficient construction of belt fastening device which will easily accommodate itself to cylindrical or oval pulleys, thereby serving a wide range of usefulness.

With this and other objects in view as will more fully appear as the description proceeds, the invention consists in certain construetions and arrangements of the parts as I shall hereinafter fully describe and claim.

For a full understanding of the invention,

' reference is to be had to thefollowing des'criptionand accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure l is a perspective'view of a belt equipped with the improvements of my invention and Fig. 2is a detail view of the belt fastener attached.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in: all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

Referring to the drawing, the letter A designates a driving belt of any desired le gth and width.

B and C designate pulleys around which the belt is mounted to travel, and D designates one of my improved belt fasteners My improved fastening device, comprises four plates or bars, 1, 1 and 2, 2, arranged in horizontal pairs with a rivet 3 or similar fastening means passing therethrough. The

ends of the belt are secured between the opposing pairs 1 and 2 by means of'bolts 4 passing therethrough or by equivalent fas tening devices. It will thus be noted that the fastener is composed of hinged sections that will easily accommodate themselves to the -particular shape of the periphery of the pulley or belt wheel over which they pass in the travel of. the belt or driving band. For example, the pulley B is shown as an oval pulley, while the pulley C is a right cylinder. As the belt fasteners reach the oval periphery of the pulley B the sections will become angnlarly disposed to each other as clearly illustrated. in the drawings, and the belt will thereby be permitted to accommodate itself closely to the periphery of the pulley.

From the foregoing description in connection with the accompanying drawing, it will he'seen that I have provided a very simple construction of belt fastening device in which the hinged sections permit the belt to lie closely against the peripheries of pulleys of different shapes, the usefulness of the belt fastener being'thereby greatly increased.

Having thus described the-invention, what is claimed as new is:

As a new article of 'manufacture, the herein-describedimproved belt fastener comprising two pairs of bars, arranged parallel to each other, and a rivet passing through theadjacent ends of all of the bars, and pivotally connecting the bars together at the "middle of the fastener, whereby to produce a fastener of two hinged sections.

In testimony whereof I ainx my signature in presence of two w1tnesses.

JOHN WV. KIDVJELL.

fitness es:

MARSHALL P. GORDON, EDWARD L. MOLELLAND. 

